Whenever you name your company after your first product you run into the issue that people think that is who you are. The company behind ExtJS has grown up a lot recently, and partly to show that, now come to you as Sencha, a new identity.

They have also clearly separated their GPL/commercial offerings from their MIT projects.

Raphaël: a rich SVG library for developing vector graphics applications on the web;

Connect: an application framework that combines Rack and Node.js to provide a lean, event-driven application server.

Hiring Dmitry Baranovskiy to work full time on Raphaël is awesome, and Jonathan Stark is now running jQTouch. David Kaneda, creator of jQTouch, is also at the company and I think we will hear about what he has been working on soon.

It really feels like the new crew behind Sencha are looking to be a driving force for the HTML5 revolution, breaking out beyond their strong Ext* roots. It is going to be exciting what they announce next….. a prophet once told me …..

jprichardson: Please shoot me an email about what service issues you ran into and I’ll be happy to check it out.

Jadet: As a big player in the Javascript world for quite some time, Sencha is very proud of these projects (my jQTouch included), whether or not they’re associated with other Javascript libraries. The rebrand shows a revived interest in open source, a new interest in HTML5/CSS3 and other emerging standards, and, well, it’s easier to say/spell and doesn’t confuse people by matching our product name :)

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